Fairfax/Falls Church Community Services Board Merrifield Center

Care Offered

• Mental health treatment
• Dual diagnosis treatment for co-occurring serious mental health illness/serious emotional disturbance and substance use disorders

Service Setting

• Outpatient treatment
• Telemedicine/telehealth

Facility Type

• Community mental health center

Treatment Approaches

• Activity therapy
• Behavior modification
• Cognitive behavioral therapy
• Couples/family therapy
• Dialectical behavior therapy
• Group therapy
• Integrated dual diagnosis disorder treatment
• Individual psychotherapy
• Psychotropic medication
• Trauma therapy

Emergency Mental Health Services

• Crisis intervention team
• Psychiatric emergency walk-in services

Who Operates This Facility

• the Local government

Payments and Insurance Accepted

• County or local government funds
• Community Mental Health Block Grants
• Community Service Block Grants
• Medicare
• Medicaid
• Military insurance (e.g., TRICARE)
• Other State funds
• Private health insurance
• Cash or self-payment
• State mental health agency (or equivalent) funds
• State welfare or child and family services funds

Payment Assistance Available

• Sliding fee scale (fee is based on income and other factors)

Special Programs and Population Groups Supported

• Transitional age young adults
• Persons with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders
• Children/adolescents with serious emotional disturbance
• Persons with serious mental illness

Ancillary Services

• Chronic disease/illness management
• Case management
• Court-ordered outpatient treatment
• Diet and exercise counseling
• Family psychoeducation
• Housing services
• Intensive case management
• Illness management and recovery
• Integrated primary care services
• Psychosocial rehabilitation services
• Supported employment
• Supported housing
• Suicide prevention services
• Vocational rehabilitation services
• Mentoring/peer support/consumer-run services

Tobacco/Screening Services

• Nicotine replacement therapy
• Non-nicotine smoking/tobacco cessation medications
• Screening for tobacco use
• Smoking/tobacco cessation counseling

Smoking Policy

• Smoking permitted in designated area

Age Groups Accepted

• Adults
• Children/adolescents
• Seniors (65 or older)
• Young adults

Language Services

• Services for the deaf and hard of hearing

Additional Languages Supported

• Spanish